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Post by Elie De Beaufour 🐴 on Mar 4, 2022 4:51:02 GMT -5
I know I might start a flame war asking this. For me it's Pop, criminally underrated.
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Post by themanwithnoname on Mar 4, 2022 8:43:50 GMT -5
Songs of Innocence
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Post by glider on Mar 4, 2022 11:13:25 GMT -5
Ranked:
1. Zooropa
2. POP
3. All You Can't Leave Behind
4. Songs of Experience
5. Songs of Innocence
6. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
7. No Line On The Horizon
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Post by The Escapist on Mar 4, 2022 12:37:52 GMT -5
What are U2 fans thoughts on this track? Never really hear it talked about, but I really enjoy it's sleek and groovy mood. One of my favourite things I've heard from them in the third act of their career, for sure.
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Post by matt on Mar 4, 2022 19:13:33 GMT -5
What are U2 fans thoughts on this track? Never really hear it talked about, but I really enjoy it's sleek and groovy mood. One of my favourite things I've heard from them in the third act of their career, for sure. I like it, not love it, but it doesn't sound forced or contrived like much of that album and one of Bono's better efforts in recent years. More akin to the 90s moodiness rather than the bombastic melodrama he veers into a lot these days. The end cuts off too soon though, and The Edge is pretty non-descript on this. Gone are the distinctive and textured soundscapes of previously, and he's generally missing in action from most of U2's songs these days. Even if he has an active role in the songwriting, there's no USP to their musical style these days and it could easily be any backing band. |
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Post by The Escapist on Mar 4, 2022 19:15:03 GMT -5
What are U2 fans thoughts on this track? Never really hear it talked about, but I really enjoy it's sleek and groovy mood. One of my favourite things I've heard from them in the third act of their career, for sure. I like it, not love it, but it doesn't sound forced or contrived like much of that album and one of Bono's better efforts in recent years. More akin to the 90s moodiness rather than the bombastic melodrama he veers into a lot these days. The end cuts off too soon though, and The Edge is pretty non-descript on this. Gone are the distinctive and textured soundscapes of previously, and he's generally missing in action from most of U2's songs these days. Even if he has an active role in the songwriting, there's no USP to their musical style these days and it could easily be any backing band. Now you mention it, The Edge is definitely noticeable by his absence. His guitar tones and atmospherics could have added a lot to the track, for sure. |
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Post by matt on Mar 4, 2022 19:27:09 GMT -5
Being a massive fan, it's quite clear for me, the top three are brilliant albums. Everything after is probably an afterthought in the back catalogue.
1) Zooropa
2) All That You Can't Leave Behind
3) Pop
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4. Songs of Experience
5. No Line on the Horizon
6. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
7. Songs of Innocence
Love the top three. The urban dystopia feel of Zooropa, the ambitious but flawed Pop and while some think it bland, All That You Can't Leave Behind has a serenity to it that puts me at ease. Some outstanding singles on there too.
The others? I think that's the first time U2 created outright terrible songs, most explicitly with No Line. And yet, there's some really beautiful and meditative deep cuts (Cedars of Lebanon, White As Snow) in amongst some awful dross like I'll Go Crazy. The band's penchant to be BIG torpedoes the album stone dead. That's taken to it's zenith on Songs of Innocence, with cut and paste forced big choruses, and uninspired music and lyrics. That's probably the only album of theirs that has no song that I love.
That's a general trend of massive inconsistencies on all albums since No Line in particular (Atomic Bomb is an album that I don't think has anything outright bad, but nothing memorable - it's the one album I struggle to remember a lot of songs from, forgettable is the word).
Mostly guaranteed a handful of great songs, but as great a band as they are, their flaws - which emanate from a crippling self-consciousness - drag them down more often than anything truly inspired these days.
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Post by lahaine on Mar 9, 2022 16:47:44 GMT -5
All That You Can't Leave Behind for me. It mixed the 90's work with the 80's stuff with perfection and their final really from beginning to end classic album. Zooropa and Pop are great too.
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Post by bobbygillespie on Mar 16, 2022 12:46:23 GMT -5
Pop
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Post by matt on Mar 18, 2022 15:21:31 GMT -5
Anyone read Bono's sixth form poetry about Ukraine read by, erm, Nancy Pelosi? The U2 fan in me is screaming for him to stop doing things like this, as it makes my case for the band even more difficult for people to comprehend. The other part just laughs.
As great as he can be, or was, the man has absolutely no self-awareness! Admittedly, I do like the man. As farcical as he can get, there is no badness in him, but christ, he's a walking PR disaster these days.
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Post by The Escapist on Mar 18, 2022 16:00:48 GMT -5
Anyone read Bono's sixth form poetry about Ukraine read by, erm, Nancy Pelosi? The U2 fan in me is screaming for him to stop doing things like this, as it makes my case for the band even more difficult for people to comprehend. The other part just laughs. As great as he can be, or was, the man has absolutely no self-awareness! Admittedly, I do like the man. As farcical as he can get, there is no badness in him, but christ, he's a walking PR disaster these days. I saw it on Twitter and thought it was a brilliant parody of what a Bono poem would be, couldn't believe it was real. |
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Post by matt on Mar 19, 2022 17:42:02 GMT -5
Anyone read Bono's sixth form poetry about Ukraine read by, erm, Nancy Pelosi? The U2 fan in me is screaming for him to stop doing things like this, as it makes my case for the band even more difficult for people to comprehend. The other part just laughs. As great as he can be, or was, the man has absolutely no self-awareness! Admittedly, I do like the man. As farcical as he can get, there is no badness in him, but christ, he's a walking PR disaster these days. I saw it on Twitter and thought it was a brilliant parody of what a Bono poem would be, couldn't believe it was real. I literally thought that too, saw it and thought it was a parody. I assumed it was miscommunication from the media and that he hadn't wrote it, as he'd read a genuine poem by a Ukrainian artist on the U2 social media feed some days earlier. Hilariously wasn't the case. File alongside Morrissey's disastrous novel from a few years back. |
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